Entity types with dashes cause errors in ner.pyx

[r-wheeler]

When training NER task on entities that are in BILOU that also have a dash the line here throws this error. Simple workaround was to replace the dash character in my entities in a preprocessing step.

Your Environment

Info about spaCy

• spaCy version: 2.0.5
• Platform: Linux-4.4.0-1049-aws-x86_64-with-debian-stretch-sid
• Python version: 3.6.4
• Models: en_core_web_lg, en

[honnibal]

You mean entity labels with dash, right? Like if the label is JOB-NAME? Agree that we shouldn't have that restriction.

[r-wheeler]

Yeah just like that.

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On Feb 11, 2018 2:17 AM, "Matthew Honnibal" ***@***.***> wrote: You mean entity labels with dash, right? Like if the label is JOB-NAME? Agree that we shouldn't have that restriction. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1967 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AE8dWlcyJZ_fGT7wq_vh98allk_PoTjMks5tTqIzgaJpZM4SBMbn> .

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